Re: once again, problems with nm under zenwalk

[Thorsten <thorsten_kolb urz uni-hd de>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 22:12 +0200, Thorsten wrote:
>   
> > Darren Albers wrote:
> >     
> > > On 6/14/07, *Thorsten* <thorsten_kolb urz uni-hd de 
> > > <mailto:thorsten_kolb urz uni-hd de>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     As I have written a few days ago, I can not get nm working under
> > >     zenwalk
> > >     linux 4.6.
> > >     I think it has to do with that error-message:
> > >
> > >     Jun 14 20:48:56 (none) NetworkManager:
> > >     <WARN>  real_act_stage2_config():
> > >     Activation (eth1/wireless): couldn't connect to the supplicant.
> > >     Jun 14 20:50:36 (none) NetworkManager:
> > >     <WARN>  real_act_stage2_config():
> > >     Activation (eth1/wireless): couldn't connect to the supplicant.
> > >
> > >
> > >     So what exactly does that mean?
> > >
> > >     wpa_supplicant is installed and works if I setup my wireless via hand.
> > >
> > >
> > >     thanks in advance
> > >
> > >     Thorsten
> > >
> > >
> > > What version of WPA_Supplicant are you running?
> > >
> > >
> > >       
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have wpa_supplicant-0.5.7 running
> >     
>
> Where is your wpa_supplicant at?  /usr/sbin?  /sbin? /usr/bin?  Does it
> ever create a global control socket when spawned with:
>
> /path/to/wpa_supplicant -g /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global
>
> And can root read/write from that socket?
>
> Dan
>
>   
sorry for my late reply, I had no Internet-access during the last days ...

My wpa_supplicant is located under /usr/sbin/

If I do a:

wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -g 
/var/run/wpa_supplicant-global &

I can locate the file with

root[simon]# ls -l /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global
srwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2007-06-17 23:26 /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global=


but with cat ore more I can not open/read the file:

root[simon]# more /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global=
/var/run/wpa_supplicant-global=: No such file or directory
root[simon]# cat /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global
cat: /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global: No such device or address
root[simon]#


Thorsten